Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly depth-perception and rapid reflexes in adjusting what is seen standing still to oneself moving at great speed , is essential : that corner in Monaco must have appeared to Jackie exactly as it was : such-and-such a distance away , to be approached at such-and-such an angle , such-and-such a speed and so on . |
| 2 | Caught at such a weak moment , the client could not help feeling the situation was urgent , and was often more susceptible to persuasion . |
| 3 | Looked at all the usual things ; the cottages , the rectory and so on and , eventually ended up in the churchyard ; the one where Rupert Brooke is buried . |
| 4 | ‘ We have worked extremely hard in developing this , we have talked to the EC , the Government , the legal profession , and we have looked at all the practices developed in other countries to try to develop a sensible method . |
| 5 | However , it was clear from the Special Commissioner 's decision that he had looked at all the evidence and asked himself whether in view of that evidence it had been reasonable for the inspector to form the view he had taken . |
| 6 | As I think you will agree when you have looked at all the evidence it may well not have been quite so simple in this case to determine what was the best for the girl , as we , looking back on events from this point in time , may think . |
| 7 | Having looked at all the options , sit down together and decide what to go for . |
| 8 | Britain 's current " standfast policy " was deemed at best a short-term solution . |
| 9 | Most of the drums only showed the edges of labels , however , being turned at such an angle as to have the label obscured . |
| 10 | The problem is that the early lists of historic buildings were done at such a pace that they had to be assessed largely on the basis of their exteriors . |
| 11 | Try to keep the fried foods to a minimum , though unlike Western-style frying , it 's done at such a high temperature and so quickly that little fat actually penetrates the food . |
| 12 | Dolly , Tom and Carrie had all gone to bed , but Seb 's knocking brought Tom to the bedroom window complaining about being disturbed at such a late hour . |
| 13 | This can be so easily set down ; indeed , written at such a general level as they are here , these statements become almost obvious . |
| 14 | General hints at fertility ceremonies may be present , demonstrating another continuity in theme between this and earlier poetry ; but it is important to see that , though its death and rebirth are also related , Christianity is presented by Eliot as an escape from Frazerian cycles of fertility ( in the way that the Buddhist ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ hinted at such an escape ) , not as its mere continuation . |
| 15 | Robinson was surprised and a little alarmed at such an untypical gesture . |
| 16 | The knowledge explosion means what it implies ; the task of producing a scheme that would really satisfy all needs , and avoid the criticisms which had very rightly been levied at all the previous schemes , was enormous . |
| 17 | I think if you 're seen at all the wedding fairs no good just going to one wedding fair . |
| 18 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 19 | It is the production version of the PWS 4000 porting platform which has been shown at all the major computer exhibitions since Comdex/Fall last October ( UX No 357 ) . |
| 20 | Though he was a college Conservative of a patriotic and nationalist kind , he had shown at first no sign of the bitter and obsessive anti-Semitism that became the hallmark of his speaking and writing . |
| 21 | It was so cheap that it could be sold at half the price of the home-grown grain . |
| 22 | Electronic calculators can be produced at such a low cost that manufacturers of slide rules and of electro-mechanical calculators have completely lost their markets . |
| 23 | Such was their isolation that their way of life hardly reflected at all the kind to be found just a dozen miles away . |
| 24 | Yes , I think also how you feel it could be improved would be very relevant and how you would feel in the context of a pensioners meeting , an annual meeting like shareholders have in companies and how you if you have any views on how such a meeting might be managed in relation to the deferred pensioners interests , the existing pensioners interests , the employees interest and obviously the company 's interest being adequately reflected at such a meeting but I think we would welcome that aspect . |
| 25 | Kidner much perturbed at such a suggestion . |
| 26 | A series of events emphasising the long tradition of Ligurian exploration of the outside world has been organised , and an ambitious exhibition , ‘ Genova nell'età barocca ’ , mounted at both the Galleria Nazionale di Palazzo Spinola and the Palazzo Reale ( until 26 July ) , forms part of this highly conscious effort to revalue Genoa 's past . |
| 27 | A spokeswoman for the band , whose hits include Love Cats and The Walk , said it is the first time The Cure will have played at such an intimate venue for almost ten years . |
| 28 | Before Jos could knock at the door , it was opened by a tiny old woman bent at such an angle that she could not see them without straightening up , her head cocked to one enquiring side . |
| 29 | However , if the inhibitor was injected at such a time that RNA synthesis was inhibited while the animals were being trained on the maze , then they failed to remember it when tested on it later . |
| 30 | In this specimen , DiI was injected at both the r2 exit point ( on the right side of the embryo ) and at the r4 exit point on the left side . |